Landlords face 50% Christmas price increase for emergency repairs

New research from the UK’s No.1 property marketplace, TheHouseShop.com, has revealed that landlords could be charged up to 50 percent more for an emergency repair call out over the Christmas period, (from the 22nd December to the 1st January) compared to the rest of the year.

TheHouseShop.com carried out research, to get estimated costs for emergency callouts in the two weeks over Christmas and New Year. Recent data shows that landlords requiring services such as window repair, tree surgery, boiler engineers, and plumbers, could see a price increase of between 20 per cent – 50 per cent for emergency repairs over Christmas.

Stephen Jury, spokesperson for home services marketplace, Plentific.com, comments on the likely Christmas price increase that landlords could face: